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6. Coinage
Coinage is the word formation process in which a new word is created either deliberately or accidentally without using the
other word formation processes and often from seemingly nothing. As neologism or coinage, we identify the word
formation process of inventing entirely new words neology. This is a very rare and uncommon method to create new words,
but in the media, people try to outdo each other with more and better words to name their products. Often these trademark
names are adopted by the masses and they become everyday words of language Yule : 2006. E.g :
Aspirin Escalator Heroin Band-aid Factoid Frisbee Google Kerosene
Kleenex Laundromat Linoleum Muggle Nylon Psychedelic Quark Xerox
Zipper
7. Clipping
Clipping is a word-formation process, but also the result of the process itself is called ‘clipping’. In general it can be said, that
“word formation is concerned with the process that expands the
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vocabulary of a language, i.e. create new lexemes” Kortmann, 2005. E.g :
1. Adv : Advertisement 2. Doc
: Doctor 3. Flu
: Influenza 4. Lab
: Laboratory 5. Phone : Telephone
2.4 Review of the Related Studies
In this part, the writer states the relevant studies which are possible in adding the readers view about slang words which is used by people. In
this case, actually the writer ever finds out or listens about the same research. There are some previous researches that concern in this topic :
they are Afifah Rahmawati 2012, Ani Wahyu Setyowati 2012, and and Muhammad Ismail 2014.
Afifah Rahmawati 2012 her study is entitle“Word Formation Process on Slang Words Used by Transexual”. This research focus on
study of slang words used by transexual characters in 5 Indonesian films. She used some kinds of word formation process from O’ Grady and
Guzman 1996, Katamba 1993, Hatch and Brown 1995, and Kridalaksana 2007. She classified some word formation such as :
Compounding, Borrowing, Coinage, Blending, Clipping, Back Formation,
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